yuppie: [20] Yuppie is an acronym, formed in the USA from the initial letters of ‘young urban professional’. It came on the scene in 1984, and at first competed with yumpie (formed from ‘young upwardly mobile people’). It was yuppie which won out, and indeed has thrived to such an extent as to produce a whole range of (more or less ephemeral) clones such as buppie ‘black yuppie’, guppie ‘green [ecologically concerned] yuppie’, and Juppie ‘Japanese yuppie’.
yuppie (n.)
1982, acronym from "young urban professional," ousting competition from yumpie (1984), from "young upward-mobile professional," and yap (1984), from "young aspiring professional." The word was felt as an insult by 1985.
yuppie 英文释义
1. a young upwardly mobile professional person; someone under 40 who prospered during the 1980s
yuppie 实用场景例句
The Porsche 911 reminds me of the worst parts of the yuppie era.
这辆保时捷911让我想起了雅皮士时代最不堪的那些日子。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
...an ambitious yuppie lawyer.
雄心勃勃的雅皮士律师
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My friend is a yuppie. He lives in a huge house in Manhattan.
我的朋友是城市里一个雅皮士. 他住在曼哈顿的一所大房子里.
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My friend is a yuppie. He lives in a huge house in Beverly Hill and earn $ 85,000 a year.
我朋友是城市里一个雅皮士. 他住在贝费利希尔斯的一所大房子里,年薪为八万五千美元.
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Anyway, that's a yuppie joint.
无论如何, 雅皮愿意去那儿.
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They created the teenager , the yuppie, the baby boomer, the singleton and the metrosexual.
他们把消费者划分为:青少年, 婴儿潮, 单身主义者和都市玉男.
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That woman dishevelled who stand by salad cabinet is a little likes yuppie in 90 th age.
站在色拉柜旁边哪个披头散发的女人有点像90年代的雅皮士.
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This guy is a superficial yuppie with no intellect whatsoever.
这个家伙是个肤浅的雅皮士,没有什么头脑。
辞典例句
The Porsche 911 reminds me of the worst parts of the yuppie era.